Here are some reasons others hate java:
But my reasons are purely practical. It takes me multitudes of time longer to do something with a java utility than a perl utility. Errors are a nightmare to decipher. Build processes take hours for large projects where pre-compilation is required. Libraries and JDK versions are a huge hassle to keep up with, especially if you have external vendors writing code for you … they inevitably use a feature of 1.5 when you’re still stuck with 1.3. The java classes we work with are amazingly obscure and complex … most likely to produce a level of job security for the company that developed it. There’s just far too much to complain about than rave about.
